Echoes from the Garden

Orchard prunings as skeletal forms, paper from plants cast over the forms, create an echo from the source.

Prunings are collected, shaped and allowed to dry for months before being skeletonized. Plant fibres are collected, chopped, cooked, pulped and made into paper. Paper is draped over the form, and, in time, shrinks as it dries, creating a skin-like surface – the resultant form is that of an abstracted ‘container’.

The work, emulating Nature’s process, is, thus, an echo.

Image 1: VESSEL (orchard prunings, paper (ginger, red hot poker)
Approx. 400 x 400 x 400 mm

Image 2: VESSEL (orchard prunings, paper (ginger, red hot poker)
Approx. 400 x 400 x 400 mm

Image 3: Image 1: VESSEL (orchard prunings, paper (ginger, red hot poker)
Approx. 400 x 400 x 400 mm

Image 4: VESSEL (orchard prunings, paper (ginger)
200 x 200 x 200 mm

Image 5: VESSEL (orchard prunings, paper (red hot poker)
200 x 200 x 200 mm

Image 6: VESSEL (orchard prunings, paper (red hot poker)
200 x 200 x 200 mm